John, time to give it a rest. You were heard.
I would suggest focusing on the restart mechanism. The executable
weewxd
should restart if a database connection cannot be made. If that is not
the
case, then that's a bug. Document it and let us know.
On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 4:57 AM John Smith<[email protected]>
wrote:
On Mon, 17 Nov 2025 at 23:09, matthew wall<[email protected]>
wrote:
on the contrary, cameron's comment is exactly on point. systemd
unit
files are *not* conf files, so they may be replaced when you
update/upgrade
the weewx package. the pattern for customizing systemd units is the
.d
pattern.
Why is everyone trying to dream up the worst configuration possible
that
someone maybe sort of kind of might do?
The core issue is very very simple weeWX no longer starts on boot up
with
out intervention, be it changes to the SystemD file or manually
starting it.
adding a dependency in systemd is a hack, not a real fix, for a
number of
reasons:
It would immediately restore previous functionality.
1) it does not fix the problem for every operating system and init
system
That's a straw man argument, the only problem is with the order that
SystemD starts things.
2) it is a dependency that does not apply to every installation,
Since not every installation has SystemD involved this is again a
straw
man argument.
3) it is a dependency that is not part of weewx and that could
change
depending on a non-weewx component of the system
Have we moved on to buzz word bingo or something?
just as we have to minimize python module and os dependencies, we
have to
minimize init dependencies. otherwise long-term support and
robustness
suffer. a lot. we could take the route of not having any deb/rpm
More straw man arguments, a slight change to service file will NOT
increase your support work load, it will decrease it because people
won't
complain about weeWX not starting on system boot.
packages for weewx, and let someone else create those to include in
debian or redhat or whatever. but some time ago we chose to do
them, to
make life easier for users and so that users could have weewx
updates more
What's any of that got to do with the PR I made? weeWX doesn't start
when
the OS starts... You are creating support headaches for yourself by
trying
to defend a point absent logic and there isn't any data showing how 2
extra
lines in a SystemD service file will be even be noticed let alone
detrimental...
frequently (if they choose) than the os releases. we have been
fairly
successful in keeping weewx packages robust wrt to the changes
between os
releases, and consistent across multiple operating systems (and
their
different uses of systemd, for that specific init system)
There aren't any problems in an any other init system, so why keep
making
straw man arguments without actually addressing my comments based on
evidence rather than going off on frequent tangents?
is not the fix to make weewx retry mysql/maria/postgres connections
and
do nothing else until that connection is successful?
Finally something on topic at last, but then you immediately brought
up a
red herring by including pgSQL...
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